From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:28:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D07A7882-8A37-4B46-B87E-51E3EDD5546C@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090209091839.63734525@krikkit>
On 9 Feb 2009, at 09:18, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:26:38 +0000, Stroller wrote:
>
>> I can find numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or
>> so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of
>> describing "root=" to the kernel.
>
> It would appear that you need an initrd/initramfs to use this.
>
> http://mulix.livejournal.com/84768.html
Ah! Many thanks. I will live without this shortcut, then, I think.
I bow to your vastly superior Google-Fu.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-09 7:26 [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf Stroller
2009-02-09 7:42 ` Dale
2009-02-09 7:56 ` Stroller
2009-02-09 8:02 ` Dale
2009-02-09 9:04 ` Stroller
2009-02-09 8:03 ` Stroller
2009-02-09 8:10 ` Dale
2009-02-09 9:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-02-09 9:28 ` Stroller [this message]
2009-02-09 9:41 ` Neil Bothwick
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[not found] ` <c3ACW-39s-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-02-09 10:32 ` Michael Hampicke
2009-02-09 16:51 ` Stroller
2009-02-09 17:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-02-09 18:03 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-02-09 22:26 ` Stroller
2009-02-10 17:59 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-02-10 18:46 ` Mick
2009-02-10 20:11 ` Albert Hopkins
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